Estradiol and calcium affect the growth hormone producing cells in female middle-aged rats

Acta Veterinaria

Volumn 55, Issue 2-3, 2005, Pages 111-120

  Milošević, Verica ^a   Trifunović, Svetlana ^a   Šošić Jurjević, Branka ^a   Bujšić, Nada ^b   Sekulić, Milka ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BELGRADE   (Serbia)

^b Biochemical Laboratory 'Galathea'   (Serbia)

Author keywords

Estradiol; GH cells; Growth hormone; Middle aged; Rat females

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM; CALCIUM DERIVATIVE; CALCIUM GLUCEPTATE; ESTRADIOL; ESTRADIOL DIPROPIONATE; GLUCOHEPTONIC ACID; GROWTH HORMONE; PEROXIDASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADULT; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BLOOD LEVEL; BLOOD SAMPLING; CELL ACTIVITY; CELL FUNCTION; CELL GROWTH; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONCENTRATION RESPONSE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISSECTION; FEMALE; GROWTH HORMONE BLOOD LEVEL; HISTOLOGY; HORMONE DETERMINATION; HYPOPHYSIS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INJECTION; MORPHOMETRICS; MULTIPLE DRUG DOSE; NONHUMAN; PEROXIDASE ANTIPEROXIDASE COMPLEX; RAT; RAT STRAIN; SECRETION; SOMATIC CELL; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; TIME;

EID: 21344462427     PISSN: 05678315     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2298/avb0503111m     Document Type: Article

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